DIGITIZE, SHARE, AND BACKUP YOUR PICTURES, MOVIES, DOCUMENTS

ABOUT ME I like to play around with different technologies I like family history I have digitized a lot of my own family history I have owned a computer business I now work at Familysearch.org as a web developer on the record search team on home page Blog: patrickliechty.com – Handout in back and on blog

WHAT IF YOU HAD A FIRE? If you had a fire, all of your family photos would be gone. Priceless ancestor pictures would be gone.

TOO MANY MOVIES, PHOTOS, SLIDES, NEGATIVES!!!

WHAT I WILL COVER Choose an online backup service. Digitizing Video – Doing it yourself or use a service Digitize Pictures – Doing it yourself or use a service Digitizing negatives and slides – Do it yourself or use a service Share your pictures, movies, and documents online Collecting money to pay for equipment and services Please add information if you have it

QUESTION What would my great, great grand children wish I would have done? 1.Preserve the living memory I have. 2.Capture stories and audio from living relatives 3.Digitize all that I have 4.Put it in a place that will be accessible and preserved for a long time 5.Share it with other family members

RESEARCH AN ONLINE BACKUP SERVICE. Monthly cost Automatic backup!! – I have seen people loose data Ease of backup Storage limits Restore options External drives Offsite backup is critical – I have seen a lot of people loose data Accessing your files from devices and the web

CHOOSE AN ONLINE BACKUP SERVICE. Backblaze.com (Sponsor of Rootstech) $4 a month unlimited. The lowest price service with the most flexibility and ease of use Carbonite.com $5 a month unlimited, but limited restore options for this price. Mozy.com $5.99 a month for 50 GB with flexible restore options

DIGITIZING VIDEO – USE A SERVICE Madtechnologies.com In Exibit Hall They are a good all in one service for scanning pictures, movies, negatives, etc. Very good to work with Local here in Idaho, but work in Salt Lake City Store videos online for $5-6 a month

DIGITIZING VIDEO – USE A SERVICE iMemories.com 1.$14.99 ($9.99 right now) to convert video tape to digital. 2.$9.99 to burn it to DVD. 3.*Stores your videos online for $59 a year unlimited to share with others Gotmemories.com 1.$9.99 to convert video tape to DVD (5 tape minimum) 2.Costs more, but you get professional service.

DIGITIZING VIDEO – DOING IT YOURSELF VHS – Analog tapes (VHS or VHS-C) - Use video capture device for older analog videos (RCA connector) - iGrabber $30 on Amazon.com to create Mpeg 4 video - Other devices will do everything to copy a video to DVD – About $80 - Look in notes to see best settings for quality vs size Digital tapes (Ditigal8, MiniDV, MicroMV) - Use your video camera to import the tape content onto your computer (Use Firewire) - On Mac use iMovie or Roxio Titanium Toast ($20 converts video as well) - On Windows use your video camera software or other software to import

DIGITIZING VIDEO – DOING IT YOURSELF Use Mpeg 4 format H.264 (.mp4) - Best quality with the smallest file size - Avg GB per 1 hour movie - Most compatible format - Can be streamed from a website - iMovie can convert it to Mpeg 4 on Mac or Roxio Titanium Toast - Follow the settings in the syllabus or class hand out for best results

DIGITIZING PICTURES – USE A SERVICE Madtechnologies.com is a company that works with you. Fotobridge.com is one of the lowest at 20 cents a photo and it gets cheaper the more you do. Scancafe.com is one the best services at.29 cents a photo There are many other photos services out there. Don’t choose a grocery store.

DIGITIZING PICTURES – DOING IT YOURSELF ImageFormula DR-3010C for $750 online 1.Much faster than a regular scanner 2.Feed 30 photos at once 3.Does 40 pictures a minute on low quality 4.Image correction: deskew, color correction 5.I bought a used one for $325 6.Scans front and back at the same time (duplex) 7.Scans documents as well and can use OCR to digitize the document into Word format Alternate - Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Scanner $399 1.Comparable specifications

DIGITIZING PICTURES – DOING IT YOURSELF Use a flatbed scanner for old, fragile pictures Use a scanner that is easy on the photos. Some scanners will bend the photo.

DIGITIZING PICTURES – DOING IT YOURSELF Using Ezphotoscan.com 1.Rent the equipment including laptop with software, scanner, gloves, etc 2.$375 for 7 days including shipping 3.People have done 20,000 photos in that time 4.Great Kodak scanners 5.They are down in the exibit hall. 6.They also scan your photos for.25 cents

DIGITIZING NEGATIVES AND SLIDES – USE A SERVICE Madtechnologies.com is a bit more expensive in this area, but they have great people who will work with you. Scancafe.com will do it for.29 cents a slide or photo Fotobridge.com starts out at.43 cents per negative and slides at.36 cents per slide. It is cheaper as you go up.

DIGITIZING NEGATIVES AND SLIDES – DO IT YOURSELF I used a Epson Perfection V100 Photo scanner $120 – 4 years old It can scan negatives and slides This scanner is very slow. It only scans one negative or 4 slides at once. Recommended Scanner - HP Scanjet G negatives at one time or 16 slides $169 on hp.com Great Scanner Excellent picture quality as well.

SHARE YOUR FAMILY PICTURES ONLINE Gallery Project Share your own pictures and movies online Easy to upload and organize Password protected I use Hostmonster.com $5 a month unlimited storage. It is very easy to install and use.

GALLERY – SHARE FAMILY PICTURES AND MOVIES

SHARING SERVICE FOR IMMEDIATE FAMILY Justfamily.com Share photos, stories, video Nice, easy to use website Free for 2GB $5 a month for 50GB

FAMILY WEBSITE Share news and information with your family on your own website Everyone has an on your domain name It is a central place to communicate A central place to connect with unknown relatives I have many people contact me from liechty.org

SHARE ANCESTOR PICTURES AND STORIES Few good choices to share your family history, stories and pictures Site must be free and have a long term interest in preserving your history A place that is open to everyone and is easy to access Won’t go away soon There are so many sites. How to choose which one? 1.Familysearch.org – Best location Free and open to the public Now has picture and story upload that integrates with the new tree Has long term backing from an organization that believes in family history Is non profit

SITES FOR SHARING ANCESTORS Wikitree.com 1.It is open and free 2.Can upload photos and stories 3.Advertisements for non-genealogist, but it is free 4.Not as user friendly as other sites 5.In exibit hall

WIKITREE.COM

SITES FOR SHARING ANCESTORS Archives.com 1.Can upload photos 2.Can add notes to an ancestor 3.Notes can be very long (Stories) 4.Free tree to everyone 5.Only pay for accessing records

ARCHIVES.COM – ADD PHOTOS AND NOTES

SITES FOR SHARING ANCESTORS Mocavo.com 1.Add your tree 2.I need to look into it more 3.Easy to use!

MYHERITAGE.COM Very impressive features Free tree to everyone Like facebook for genealogists Easy to use and interesting to every day person that aren’t genealogists Photo upload free for first 250 mb

SITES FOR SHARING ANCESTORS Familysearch.org 1.Upload photos and stories connected to the tree 2.Familysearch.org/photos is where you go 3.Limited for now by invite 4.Available to all at the end of April by invite 5.Ramping up photos 6.Just released the new conclusion tree to the public

FAMILYSEARCH.ORG - ADD PHOTOS

FAMILYSEARCH.ORG - ADD STORIES

FAMILYSEARCH.ORG -BPHOTOS AND STORIES

COLLECTING MONEY FOR EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES Family organization Most people are not interested in doing genealogy but will donate money They are interested in paying to help with family history, but many don’t want to be involved Most equipment was paid by donations Small donations from many people - $40 each

QUESTIONS? 30 handouts Handout on my blog patrickliechty.com Handout is on Rootstech.org under this session It has all of my notes and settings on how to do all of this